Photos: Syria on the verge of imminent battle

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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows destruction in the Qusur district of the central city of Homs on July 26, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria, urging all parties to implement the plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to stop the deadly violence.

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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows Syrian anti-regime protesters holding a cartoon depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he tries to push sectarianism towards the opposition during a demonstration in Kfar Nubul in the northwestern province of Idlib on July 25, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria, urging all parties to implement the plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to stop the deadly violence.HO
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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows a masked Syrian man showing damages in the town of Qara, outside Damascus, on July 26, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria, urging all parties to implement the plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to stop the deadly violence.HO
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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows Syrian mourners carrying the coffin of a man identified as Anas Khaled Saadeddine who they say was killed by forces loyal to the regime in Houla in the central province of Homs on July 25, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria,HO
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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows the corpses of unidentified people who opposition activists said were killed by regime forces in Dumeir in the outskirts of Damascus on July 26, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria, urging all parties to implement the plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to stop the deadly violence.
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A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition’s Shaam News Network on July 27, 2012 shows Syrian mourners burying the body of a man killed in violence during his funeral in Binnish in the northeastern province of Idlib on July 26, 2012. UN chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous said there is “no plan B” for Syria, urging all parties to implement the plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to stop the deadly violence.HO
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In Homs, Syria, a family with no electricity tries to find relief from the heat of summer by dipping in a pool of water leaking from blasted pipes.Yazen Homsy, Reuters
/ Daily Telegraph

A Syrian revolutionary flag waves on top of a building on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. During two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, three Associated Press journalists found more than 20 rebel groups who often destroy government army posts and convoys but lack the weapons and unity to do more than gradually chip away at the government of President Bashar Assad — a recipe for a long, bloody insurgency.Khalil Hamra
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Two members of the Free Syrian Army aim their weapons as they prepare to defend a house in the El Moalimin neighbourhood in Homs on Saturday. The Red Cross says it now views the fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict - a civil war in lay terms - a designation that experts say can help lay the ground for future prosecutions for war crimes. The independent humanitarian agency had previously classed the violence as localized civil wars between government forces and armed opposition rebels.Yazen Homsy, Reuters
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This citizen journalism image from video is said to show a victim wounded by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria on Thursday. With up to 200 killed, it marks the uprising's worst massacre.Shaam News Network, Ap
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